Hi folks

Several arches (amd64, ia64, powerpc/ppc32, sparc/sparc64, s390)
currently uses a memory model which is not set as default. ia64 defines
DISCONTIGMEM as default, powerpc, sparc64, s390 and x86_64 SPARSEMEM.

How should we handle this as this may have large speed impacts?

Bastian

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On Sat, 07 Jun 2008, Bastian Blank wrote:

> Several arches (amd64, ia64, powerpc/ppc32, sparc/sparc64, s390)
> currently uses a memory model which is not set as default. ia64 defines
> DISCONTIGMEM as default, powerpc, sparc64, s390 and x86_64 SPARSEMEM.

afais fedora defaults to x86_64 SPARSEMEM

also we had this as default since allmost ever,
you'll only find *one* changelog entry by fs for a bootup fixup change.

> How should we handle this as this may have large speed impacts?

keep it unless a mm guru comes with good arg or better benchmarks.


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Hi!

On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 12:33:06AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> afais fedora defaults to x86_64 SPARSEMEM
>
> also we had this as default since allmost ever,
> you'll only find *one* changelog entry by fs for a bootup fixup change.

Did the default change to SPARSEMEM some time ago?

Best regards
Frederik Schüler

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On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 11:11:39PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> Several arches (amd64, ia64, powerpc/ppc32, sparc/sparc64, s390)
> currently uses a memory model which is not set as default. ia64 defines
> DISCONTIGMEM as default, powerpc, sparc64, s390 and x86_64 SPARSEMEM.

After talking to a few ia64 folks, I think its a good idea to switch
ia64 over to SPARSEMEM.

> How should we handle this as this may have large speed impacts?
>
> Bastian
>

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